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WordPress 2.8 Available for Download

WordPress has just released a brand new version of the world’s best blogging software. Version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

Visually, 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7, just with some minor tweaks here and there. However once you’ll dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes. 2.8 is also way faster to use. You can read the full list of over 180 upgrades here.

The upgrade to 2.8 went without a single hitch and everything looks to be running normally so far. It really does seem faster than the last version. So far, I am happy with it. If WordPress follows its usual pattern, I’m sure 2.8.1 won’t be far behind. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:

I value my blog, and I have upgraded an now downgraded because the new version doesn’t work on my server. Either I have a plugin that is completely messed up or my server doesn’t support one of the new features of 2.8, or a feature of 2.8 is to be broken. I don’t know, what I do know is that I’ll be waiting for my plugins to update and more time to be able to fool around with this upgrade.

I’m kind of getting tired of updating blogs with the latest release. I know it’s pretty easy, but I it’s nice to get familiar with all the new features of a previous release before they update to a new release.

One thing they still haven’t fixed is the image caption problem. Captions don’t work well with specific themes and need to be specifically tweaked in the CSS file. They need to make captions work universally with all themes.

I just moved from blogger to wordpress. I saw the WordPress 2.8 is available! message in admin but one thing I was wondering was about plugins that say they only work up to 2.7.1. Will upgrading to 2.8 affect their performance?

The update worked perectly for me… only problem was I updated ‘Feature Content Gallery Plugin’ at the same time and it crashed…. Turns out (if you have it) that you need to change the get code from ‘content-gallery’ to, yep, you guessed it ‘featured-content-gallery’

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